Explore Career Ideas

Take a look at Access Southampton website, it has lots of current information about leaving school, how to apply to college and apprenticeships:

http://access-southampton.co.uk/leaving-school/

The following site offers help to plan and prepare when considering a college course, apprenticeship or other employment:

Flying Start, Southampton 
Offers careers information, tools, activities and explores different careers:

https://wwwcareerpilot.org.uk

Register to apprenticeships online, even if you’re not really thinking about doing one yet. You could have alerts sent to when something interesting comes in – it would give you another option, in case you go off the idea of college.

https://www.apprenticeships.gov.uk/apprentice/what-is-an-apprenticeship

Get inspired! Check out Amazing Apprenticeships website and watch some for the industry-based videos – show your parents this brilliant inspirational website too! This section has all the big employer’s vacancies, check out the likes of BBC, Google, ITV, IBM etc.

https://amazingapprenticeships.com/vacancies/

Set up a brilliant online CV using Linked In – Linked In is like social media app for business and many recruiters and employers use it to find new employees – searching for the best of the best.

https://gb.linkedin.com
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/linkedin.htm

Check out the National Careers website for job profiles and linked careers has anything changed for you? Have you discovered new skills or new ideas?

https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/explore-careers

How about doing some online quizzes to find out more about yourself such as Myers/Briggs for animals – great for adding to your personal profiles or statements:

https://icould.com/buzz-animals/
https://sacu-student.com/
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/